Ed Miliband attacks Tory 'shower'

Ed Miliband attacks Tory 'shower'

Ed Miliband said he drew inspiration from one nation believers like past PMs Benjamin Disraeli

Ed Miliband said he drew inspiration from one nation believers like past PMs Benjamin Disraeli

He savaged David Cameron as a “miserable shower of an PM” who had to go. His attack on the Tories brought the biggest cheers at the Manchester conference.

The Labour leader said: “Have you ever seen a more incompetent, hopeless, out-of-touch, Uturning, pledge-breaking, make-it-up-as-you-go-along, back-of-the-envelope, miserable shower than this Prime Minister and this Government?”

Miliband said he drew inspiration from one nation believers like past PMs Benjamin Disraeli, a Tory, he joked.

“We must rediscover that spirit of one nation where everyone plays their part part and we rebuild together,” said Miliband.

He promised an equal Britain where north and south work together and the rich show greater “responsibility to the country”.

In a passionate speech seen as a game-changer in British politics, he spelled out the values he believes can get him into No 10.

The son of Jewish refugees who fled the Nazis told us how his normal upbringing means that he connects with ordinary people, and how “his story is about a deep conviction to change this country”.

He would overhaul the economy so Brits were no longer “at the mercy of forces beyond their control”, like bankers, petrol prices, and greedy energy companies.

Immigration controls, which he conceded had gone wrong under New Labour, would be tightened to stop recruitment agencies undercutting UK wages with cheap foreign labour.